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Engineering disorder with monolayer amorphous carbon growth

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A disorder-to-disorder synthesis strategy now enables the fast, wafer-scale growth of ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon.

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Fig. 1: Disorder-to-disorder synthesis approach for ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC) growth.

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  1. Center for 2D Quantum Heterostructures, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, Republic of Korea

    Hyeongjoon Kim, Kyuyeon Won & Hyeon Suk Shin

  2. Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea

    Hyeongjoon Kim

  3. Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, Republic of Korea

    Hyeon Suk Shin

  4. Department of Energy, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, Republic of Korea

    Hyeon Suk Shin

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Kim, H., Won, K. & Shin, H.S. Engineering disorder with monolayer amorphous carbon growth. Nat. Nanotechnol. 20, 1357–1358 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01986-1

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